Polymarket odds for WTI crude to reach $90 a barrel in September rose to 77%, up 17 percentage points over the past 24 hours, while the probability of a move above $95 a barrel stood at 47%, up 18 percentage points. According to Odaily, the increase came as tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated and two supertankers were struck by unidentified objects while passing through the Strait of Hormuz, heightening concerns over crude supply. International oil prices extended gains, with WTI briefly approaching $88 a barrel and Brent crude rising above $92 a barrel.

According to Jin10, SoftBank Group- and OpenAI-backed power infrastructure company SB Energy has filed for an initial public offering in the United States, seeking to profit from rising electricity demand from data centers. The company said revenue in the first half of 2026 was $139 million, with a net loss of $3.2 billion, compared with revenue of $83 million and a net loss of $216 million in the same period last year. SB Energy has a portfolio of solar and battery storage assets and is developing a 9.2-gigawatt natural gas power plant in Ohio to supply an artificial intelligence data center as it shifts its focus to digital infrastructure. OpenAI and SoftBank have agreed to invest $500 million in SB Energy for an OpenAI data center in Texas with a capacity of 1.2 gigawatts, and Ares Management has also invested in the company.

Bitcoin traded around $78,000, down 0.4% since midnight UTC and roughly 0.7% over the past seven days, as the market consolidates following a short squeeze that drove prices from below $63,000 to a high near $81,400 last week.The calm has not dented crypto's relative strength. Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.5% since midnight, with Bitcoin outperforming equities again.Spot Bitcoin ETFs' nine consecutive days of net inflows — roughly $3.04 billion, the longest streak since April — ended Friday with a $202 million outflow. Buying resumed Monday with $217 million, according to SoSoValue.Altcoins are mixed, with the Altcoin Season index falling to 26/100 from 34 on Friday — the lowest reading in more than 90 days.Robinhood Chain Revenue Drives Arbitrum's 30% GainARB is the best-performing token in the top 100 over 24 hours, up nearly 30%. The driver is Robinhood Chain, which runs as a dedicated Arbitrum chain and sends 10% of net protocol revenue back to the Arbitrum ecosystem.Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder said Monday that the chain's 24-hour transaction revenue had passed $2 million, up from around $1.22 million a day earlier. At that rate, Arbitrum's cut would equal roughly $73 million a year.ARK Invest's Lorenzo Valente calculated that gross chain revenue on Robinhood Chain rose from $54,676 on August 22 to $1.088 million on August 30 — close to a 20-fold increase — with Arbitrum's share scaling from $5,400 to $108,000 over the same stretch.That growth rate is the reason the move is this large. A revenue-share arrangement is only worth what the underlying chain generates, and Robinhood Chain went from negligible to a $73 million annualized contribution to Arbitrum in roughly a week.The rally is backed by rising futures participation, with open interest surging over 10% — a combination pointing to a buildup of long bets as the token tries to establish a foothold above chart resistance at 11 cents. The market does not look overheated, with annualized funding rates near 8%.Balanced Derivatives Positioning Points to Traders WaitingThe 24-hour taker buy-sell volume ratio for crypto futures remains balanced for a second straight day. Open interest has held steady near $136 billion while volume dropped 7%.That combination suggests traders are adding neither long nor short bets and are instead waiting for a clearer directional cue. Positioning in BTC and ETH specifically remains light, with open interest at multi-week lows.Bitcoin's and ether's 30-day implied volatility indexes, BVIV and EVIV, have reversed their mid-August spikes, pointing to the same calm.Monero and Tron Show the Extremes in Funding RatesMonero open interest continues climbing, reaching 640,000 tokens — the highest since February 2024.The picture is mixed. Funding rates have dropped to 15% from over 50%, indicating the market is no longer overcrowded with bullish bets. But the 24-hour OI-adjusted cumulative volume delta is negative, pointing to bearish leadership. XMR has pulled back to around $525 from Monday's $548 high.Tron sits at the opposite extreme, with funding rates at minus 80%. That signals overcrowding in bearish bets, with short sellers willing to bear a high cost to hold positions. TRX is down for a third straight day near 33 cents.Extreme negative funding is a double-edged reading. It confirms bearish conviction, but a book that crowded becomes vulnerable to a squeeze if price moves against it — the same dynamic that powered Bitcoin's own move through $69,000 last week.Deribit Options Flow Leans Bullish at $80,000The $80,000 call expiring September 25 is the most-traded Bitcoin option of the past 20 hours. For ether, the $2,500 call has seen the most activity.That strike selection is notable given where the supply picture sits. Glassnode data shows nearly 8% of Bitcoin's supply was acquired between $80,000 and $82,000 — the largest concentration at any comparable range — with the US spot ETF cohort's average cost basis in the same band and the 50-week moving average at $81,081.Traders buying $80,000 calls are positioning for Bitcoin to clear the densest supply zone in the market by expiry.DeFi Holds Up Better Than the Broader MarketThe DeFi bid that lifted lending and DEX tokens through the back half of August is still running.Curve DAO climbed 14% over 24 hours to around 35.13 cents on $119 million in volume. Uniswap extended its run, rising 8% since midnight to around $5.80 after a 12% gain the previous day — now up 34% over seven days on $519 million in volume. Aave rose 1.9% to $126.54 and Morpho gained 2%.The Altcoin Season index at 26/100 alongside this DeFi strength describes narrow rather than broad participation. Capital is rotating into specific narratives — Arbitrum's revenue share, the DeFi lending complex — rather than lifting the altcoin market generally.

Binghatti Holding Ltd. is in talks with a major entity on potential partnerships worth billions of dollars and has suspended plans for an initial public offering, according to a top official at the Dubai-based developer, Bloomberg reported.

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